Re: [PATCH 19/20] drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.c: fix error return code

Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-10-04T09:05:55Z

>
> Thanks for looking into these kind of problems. The contents
> of the patch are correct, but the automated commit message is useless.
> You shouldn't just blindly say what the automated
> script was looking for, you should describe what the bug is so that evaluators
> can decide what the impact is and if it should be backported to stable
> and vendor kernels.
>
> Please resubmit the patchs with a reasonable analysis in the commit message.
> Something like:
>
> There is a bug in skge driver. If alloc_etherdev() fails, then
> skge_devinit() will return NULL, and the skge_probe function incorrectly
> returns success 0. It should return -ENOMEM instead.
>
>

Stephen, I do not want to include function names on the commit
message. What do you think about this updated message, is it
acceptable?

--- --- ---
This patch fixes a bug related to the return value of the function. In some
error cases, the function return non-negative SUCCESS values, when the
correct would be a negative ERROR value.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
(
if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
{ ... return ret; }
|
ret@p1 = 0
)
... when != ret = e1
when != &ret
*if(...)
{
... when != ret = e2
when forall
return ret;
}

// </smpl>
--- --- ---

Thanks,

Peter

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Peter